Comment on ``On nomenclature, and the relative merits of two formulations of skew distributions by A. Azzalini, R. Browne, M. Genton, and P. McNicholas

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2016.04.004zbMath1376.60029arXiv1601.00773OpenAlexW2963879592MaRDI QIDQ297127

Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Sharon X. Lee

Publication date: 24 June 2016

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00773

zbMATH Keywords

finite mixture modelsmodel based clusteringmultivariate skew distributionskew \(t\)-distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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Uses Software

• EMMIXcskew
• Emmixuskew

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